Description

The design of the equipment offers excellent performance for processing materials used in the sterile area and/or finished product terminal sterilization.

• Highly robust and reliable: A rectangular cross-section chamber with two hinged doors, constructed completely in AISI 316 stainless steel. It has 3 filtering stages in the inlet assembled from F8, G4 and H14 filters. It has HEPA 99.99% type filters on the exit side of the chamber, with special ceramic frames, that guarantee the correct operation and integrity for Class 100 (ISO 5) at operating temperatures of 250 ºC. These filters are not fitted for Class 10,000 (ISO 7) environments; instead the exit has a HEPA 99.97%, high temperatures filter.
• Sanitary design: All the unit's component and pipes (valves, heat exchangers, fans, filters, etc.) are supplied with quality certificates, in accordance with pharmaceutical industry standards, and have been designed for a long operating life and easy maintenance.
• Production performance: The unit has electrical elements to heat the load, dimensioned to offer an optimum energy and time balance and a water-cooled heat exchanger to cool the load rapidly.
• Easy to operate: The standard control system is comprised of a PLC connected to a touch screen terminal. A 3-channel recorder and thermal printer complete the MicroSter control, supervision and recording system. As an option, it can be supplied with a SCADA system.

Accessories & Options

• Additional temperature probes
• Graphical recorder according to requirements
• Loading trolleys
• Loading cart
• Product support trays
• Full external panelling
• Technical area access door
• ‘PharmaSter' SCADA control system

Applications

Hot dry air sterilization is applied to materials that tolerate high temperatures, principally glass. It is the method of choice whenever possible, since the glass surface, being in direct contact with the product, can be the origin of pyrogenic contamination and hot dry air is an effective agent for destroying pyrogens. It also has the advantage that the processed material emerges dry at the end of the cycle.

Hot dry air sterilization and depyrogenation are mainly used in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries to process glass bottles or containers that must be used for dosing sterile or aseptic products

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